[ He drops the jacket in his lap, peering up at Pete as he speaks.
Folks tend to accuse Peter of not taking things very seriously, of not looking at things very critically. He does, though; he just doesn’t make a big production out of it. And he does it now, spotting the obvious discomfort in the kid’s posture, in the way he won’t seem to meet Peter’s gaze. (He thinks again about how fucked up that all was. So many of the people in that chamber were young, were just kids. He’s not sure why those psychopaths decided to start hauling in adults, but they did. They must’ve just been trying to cover their bases. They hardly seemed to know what they were doing in the first place.) ]
You didn’t owe me anything. [ Lightly, genuinely. ] I was gonna look after her no matter what.
And, I mean, even if I did think you owed me – which I didn’t and don’t – you were there to help get us out. That alone would’ve been enough to call it even.
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Folks tend to accuse Peter of not taking things very seriously, of not looking at things very critically. He does, though; he just doesn’t make a big production out of it. And he does it now, spotting the obvious discomfort in the kid’s posture, in the way he won’t seem to meet Peter’s gaze. (He thinks again about how fucked up that all was. So many of the people in that chamber were young, were just kids. He’s not sure why those psychopaths decided to start hauling in adults, but they did. They must’ve just been trying to cover their bases. They hardly seemed to know what they were doing in the first place.) ]
You didn’t owe me anything. [ Lightly, genuinely. ] I was gonna look after her no matter what.
And, I mean, even if I did think you owed me – which I didn’t and don’t – you were there to help get us out. That alone would’ve been enough to call it even.